Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapy

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Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as his mother, Lucy Morales, sits next to him in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago on Monday, May 6, 2013. "What music therapy can uniquely provide is that passive listening experience that just encourages relaxation for the patient, encourages participation by the family," Klinger says. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)